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Keeping you in the know.... 

With comprehensive healthcare reform legislation at the forefront of the national domestic agenda, AHLA has launched this new web page as part of our mission to serve as an educational resource and foster dialogue on the key issues affecting the health law community. The web page is designed as a “one-stop” source for accessing AHLA content on healthcare reform, including news on the latest developments, insights and analysis from our members, information on state healthcare reform initiatives, links to helpful resources, and updates on related AHLA educational events and publications. Health lawyers also can access via the web page our new discussion list for sharing information about healthcare reform. We invite and encourage those wishing to contribute content to this web page to contact the AHLA editors.


 

 ***Breaking News***

Judge Allows Virginia's Lawsuit Against Healthcare Law To Proceed

The Washington Post (8/3, Helderman) reports, "A federal judge refused Monday to dismiss a Virginia lawsuit challenging the nation's sweeping new health-care law, indicating the law represents a novel extension of Congress's constitutional authority that should be tested in court and handing the law's foes an early legal victory." Had the suit been "dismissed," the development "would have provided powerful ammunition for the law's supporters, who believe such suits are frivolous political exercises." Read more...

Kaiser Health News

Healthcare Reform Update
Provided By: Healthcare Reform Educational Task Force

 State Health Care Reform Initiatives

 Insights & Analysis

Tax-Related Provisions Of The Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act - (member protected material) 
By James R. Tandler, Angelo Ciavarella, and Jeffrey E. Kaylor, Reed Smith, LLP

Healthcare Reform—Upcoming Effective Dates For Employer-Sponsored Group Health Plans - (member protected material)
By Marlene P. Frank, Daniel C. Hagen, Elena Kaplan, Evan Miller, Gary G. Short, and J. Quitman Stephens, Jones Day

Transparency Requirements, Healthcare Fraud And Abuse Law Changes, And Program Integrity Provisions Enacted As Part Of Health Reform Legislation - (member protected material)
By Eric M. Baim, Thomas N. Bulleit, Isabel P. Dunst, Sara Kraner, Michael Levinson, Peter Spivack, Helen R. Trilling, Hogan & Hartson LLP

Current Status of Health Reform
Provided by Lisa Gilden & Michael Rodgers, from AHLA's Hospitals and Health Systems Law Institute, 2010

Executive Summaries:

The New Healthcare Delivery System: What Are Medical
Homes and Accountable Care Organizations?
Provided by: Business Law and Governance Practice Group

Alerts: The following are member protected material
Now That We Have Federal Healthcare Reform, How Will the States Actually Implement It?

Healthcare Reform Legislation: Healthcare Fraud and Abuse and Program Integrity Provisions

Healthcare Reform Legislation Delivers New Transparency Requirements for the Health Industry

Clarification of Confusion in Certain Date Provisions of Whole Hospital

Healthcare Reform: What Does It Mean for Physicians?

Additional Hospital Tax-Exempt Status Requirements Effective Soon

Three Provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Healthcare Act That Address the Stark Self-Referral Act

Educational Papers:

Health Care Reform:Stark and Anti-Kickback Laws in a New Key
Beth Schermer Coppersmith, Schermer & Brockelman PLC & Vicki L. Robinson Chief, Industry Guidance Branch Office of Counsel to the HHS Inspector General
The Payment Puzzle:Innovative Strategies for Reforming Healthcare Payment
Jim Knutson, Aircraft Gear Corp. & Leah Stewart, Vinson & Elkins LLP

 Other Useful Links and Documents

***New*** Health Reform Implementation Timeline
Provided By The Kaiser Family Foundation

PPACA & HCERA Consolidated (Pub. L. No. 111-148 and Pub. L. No. 111-152).

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (H.R. 3590).

Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act (H.R. 4872), as approved by the House and incorporating the nine-page manager's amendment.
Health Reform Blog
Provided ByGeorgetown Law School’s O’Neill Institute on Health Law
Health Law Update, July 22, 2010
Provided By: Baker Hostetler
 National Health Reform Law and Policy Project
Provided By: George Washington University
Health Care Reform - Key Provisions of Comprehensive Health Care Reform Legislation, March 30, 2010
Provided By: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP
Weekly Health Care Reform Update, March 2, 2010
Provided By: Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell
Related Resources

 Your Thoughts???
Join in on AHLA's Healthcare Reform discussion list

 Educational Events

In-Person Program:
Healthcare Reform: The Law and Its Implications, Part II
December 6-7, 2010
Swissôtel Chicago
Chicago, IL

 

 Recordings and Materials

 Publications

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, as amended by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, presents a host of new legal and compliance issues and challenges for healthcare attorneys and providers. With comprehensive and timely articles composed by over 60 experienced healthcare attorneys, the Healthcare Reform Law Resource Guide details and explores the implications of the law across numerous areas of practice and settings. Both with respect to content and timing, this new AHLA publication represents the one resource that all professionals in health law and compliance will need to purchase in order to meet the new demands that healthcare reform is bound to generate.

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